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Work experience

Since 03.2022: HEISENBERG product compliance

TRUMPF SE + Co. KG, Ditzingen

2009 - 2022: Head of Product Compliance

• until 2012 Officer, then Head of Product Compliance
• Head of the Product Compliance group with 6 + 2 employees at last count. Group-wide coordination of ~20 persons responsible for product compliance
• Identify and correctly assess risks on machine tools, equipment and lasers. Design and further develop group-wide processes for safety-related risk management.
• Successful crisis management after accidents and fires on machines and plants: Analyse causes. Decide on immediate and long-term measures and manage many internal and external stakeholders including authorities. Then, if necessary, define, develop, test and immediately implement safe and cost-effective changes in series production and retrofitting, if necessary, on thousands of machines in the field.
• Climate strategy for TRUMPF products: Make the energy and resource efficiency of TRUMPF products transparent internally and externally and define and evaluate measures to reduce their footprint. Successfully represent TRUMPF interests in associations, vis-à-vis politicians and in research committees.
• Develop a standard for the safety of laser machines in national and international standardisation committees. Lead international committee. Responsibility for standards management of the TRUMPF Group
• Management of harmful and hazardous substances in TRUMPF products: German, European and partly also international legislation such as REACh, RoHS, GHS-CLP, WEEE, Conflict Minerals, Basic Materials Monitoring Act, Battery Act, China RoHS transposition.
• Lead material compliance project: Develop strategy and specifications to manage all material compliance requirements for placing products on the market internationally. For this purpose, processes and software are to be implemented across the Group.
• Analyse emissions during material processing with lasers, such as secondary radiation, gases and dusts, assess them with their risks and in accordance with international laws, and reduce them

2004 - 2008: Coordinator for development processes

• Establishment and technical management of the Project Coordination group with 4 project coordinators supporting machine tool projects
• Introduction of project management processes (e.g. quality gates, management reports) in the TRUMPF Group
• Project manager of large organisational and IT projects

2001 - 2004: Assistant to the Managing Director Research and Development

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart

1999 - 2000: Corporate Research, Project Leader in the Magnetic Sensors Working Group

Training

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
1995 - 1998: PhD thesis in the group of Prof. von Klitzing

ETH-Zurich
1990 - 1995: Diploma in Physics ETH

Humanistisches Wirsberg-Gymnasium, Würzburg
1981 - 1990: General qualification for university entrance
1986 - 1987: Blair High School and Polytechnic-School, Los Angeles, USA